Is it possible to change
your life in middle age?

Are we destined to follow the same path, or are there new opportunities to be grasped? This is a life-affirming memoir which will inspire and delight.

At the age of 42, and after 10 years of motherhood, Wilma decided to do what she’d always wanted to do: learn to surf. So she did just that, and moved to Biarritz with her children.
Having arrived in Biarritz, her first outing was a disaster, ending up with several broken bones, a fractured ego and shattered confidence. Just when she thought she’d left it too late to really enjoy learning surfing, she set up the Mamas
Surf Club, a club for women who felt they’d spent too long watching life’s action from their beach towels. With the rest of her life in chaos, Wilma became certain that if she could stand up and surf, everything else would fall into place.
And it did. As Wilma states “I was right...although rather than say everything else fell into place, once I learned to surf, none of the rest seemed to matter any more.”

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The author Wilma Johnson is an artist, writer, and surfer living in Biarritz. She studied painting and photography at St. Martin’s College of Art, and while there she founded the Neo-Naturist performance art group with Christine and Jennifer Binnie and Grayson Perry. She has exhibited her work internationally, and has lived in England, Ireland, Mexico and now France. This special edition hardback comes with a cover designed by Wilma Johnson and the book is filled with Wilma’s paintings.

Born in North London and educated at St Martin’s College of Art, Wilma Johnson, artist and renowned body painter and former punk, found herself on the quiet west coast of Ireland playing “earth mother” to her three children and husband.